Army Injures Five Palestinians, Abducts One, In Deheishe Refugee Camp

Dozens of Israeli soldiers invaded, early on Friday morning, the Deheishe refugee camp, south of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, injured five Palestinians and abducted one.

The soldiers invaded the refugee camp through its main entrance, and fired many live rounds, including expanding bullets, and gas bombs, at many youngsters, who hurled stones the armored military jeeps.

Medical sources said the soldiers shot five Palestinians with live fire and the Toto expanding bullets, before they were rushed to a local hospital.

The Deheishe News said undercover soldiers also infiltrated into the refugee camp, using a car with Palestinian license plates, especially in Martyr Saed Eid neighborhood, before storming and searching homes, and abducted Ahmad Jamal Ghanayem.

Regular army units then invaded many other areas in the refugee camp, and attacked protesters, especially in al-Basha area, and the al-‚ÄėAsleeni neighborhood.

In related news, the Hebron office of the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS), in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, has reported that Israeli soldiers abducted, on Thursday at dawn, at least eight Palestinians in the governorate.

On Wednesday at night, the soldiers abducted a former political prisoner, identified as Haitham al-Jo‚Äôba, in front of one of the gates of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, in occupied Jerusalem.